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Hospitals roll out RFID
News About 175 hospitals are expected to have joined the scheme by the end of the year, ahead of the target set in the Department of Health Coding for Success report in February 2007. The misidentification of people, supplies, medicine and medical... [09 Jul 2008]
NHS data handling: Calls for independent audits
News She said the Department of Health had issued guidance to the local strategic health authorities urging them to consider bringing in independent auditors to examine health trusts. The department has asked the strategic health authorities to consider... [07 Jul 2008]
ICO: Data breach law moves closer
News The Department of Health recently revealed that many trusts were unlikely to complete encryption of personal data for several months. Amendments to the directive would require "providers of electronic services to inform users of breaches of data... [03 Jul 2008]
Probe into loss of 21,000 hospital patient details
News The Department of Health recently revealed it would take at least six months for trusts to complete encryption of all machines, from when work began in most trusts in March. The laptop - containing patient names, dates of birth, postcodes and... [30 Jun 2008]
NHS data left lacking encryption
News The Department of Health (DoH) has confirmed that it would then take "at least six months" for each trust to complete the roll-out of encryption. SHAs are responsible for ensuring that trusts progress with encryption as swiftly as possible and the... [24 Jun 2008]
IT swallows a quarter of NHS cash budget
News The cost of upgrading NHS IT systems is now gobbling up a quarter of the health service's budget for major projects. The NPfIT in the NHS is tasked with replacing an ageing patchwork of 5,000 different computer systems with a nationwide... [09 Jun 2008]
NHS cleans up keyboard act
News The keyboards have been developed by University College London Hospital in a pilot supported by the Department of Health tech agency, Connecting for Health. Paul Jones, Connecting for Health CTO, said the introduction of these devices is a great... [07 May 2008]
Top IT job at NHS split into two
News The Department of Health advertised for a CIO to "focus on the big picture of delivering our overall IT vision" and a director of the IT programme and system delivery to "focus on managing NHS Connecting for Health and enhancing partnerships with... [28 Apr 2008]
NHS CIO jumps ship
News The Department of Health (DoH) confirmed Swindells - who has been working for the department for three and a half years - is moving out of the public sector to work for Tribal Group, a consultancy to the public sector. [15 Apr 2008]
Tech-savvy workers to make IT decisions in future
News You're not alone… Health warning to overweight IT managers Demand for tech workers hits six-year high How the staffing crisis is deepening How techie salaries are faring Is the... [14 Apr 2008]
'Dull' jobs cuts as companies turn to the cloud
News You're not alone… Health warning to overweight IT managers Demand for tech workers hits six-year high How the staffing crisis is deepening How techie salaries are faring Is the... [08 Apr 2008]
Vodafone boosts apprenticeship scheme
News You're not alone… Health warning to overweight IT managers Demand for tech workers hits six-year high How the staffing crisis is deepening How techie salaries are faring Is the... [25 Feb 2008]
BlackBerrys squashed by Whitehall data ban
News The Department of Health, Ministry of Justice, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Ministry of Defence would not reveal how many portable devices were temporarily out of action but the Government Car and Despatch Agency has withdrawn 14 PDAs. [04 Feb 2008]
Stress at work is a killer
News Dr Tarani Chandola, a senior lecturer in UCL's Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and one of the authors of the study, said for the first time the research sheds light on the mechanisms underlying the association between stress and heart... [23 Jan 2008]
Thousands more UK patients' details lost
News Stockport PCT said it had searched for the missing drive but it was not found - but said it had told local GPs and the Department of Health. The security of information held by the NHS suffered a further blow after the loss of another 4,000 medical... [18 Jan 2008]
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